Cutting chain

[Lakesailor]

I can't understand you guys who think that some kind of power tool is required for trivial jobs.

I can't understand you guys who prefer to fanny about when a 1 minute job could be done, properley and safely.

 

[cliff]

I can't understand you guys who prefer to fanny about when a 1 minute job could be done, properly and safely.

Aye, a petrol driven Stil saw is the doggies bolleaux for cutting stone or metal - just change the blade

 

[NormanS]

I can't understand you guys who prefer to fanny about when a 1 minute job could be done, properley and safely.

Someone experienced with dynamite could do it even faster, but, on a boat, I'll stick to a hacksaw.

 

[Daydream believer]

I cut about 50 lengths of 19 mm chain every year for moorings.
Tension the chain , stand with feet 200mm either side of cut & cut in centre with 225 mm angle grinder
When one half cut turn chain over & cut other half.
Hold the angle grinder like a man not a wooz
Wear goggles & make sure sparks do not hit you up the a..se as burnt trousers are not very trendy
For smaller sizes under 16 mm i use 48 inch bolt croppers

 

[ghostlymoron]

'Short length of chain I want to cut into two to go around some bollards on a quay.'

For doing a single cut in a length of chain I just don't think it's worth mobilising power tools, goggles and spark proof trousers.

 

[Lakesailor]

spark proof trousers? What have I been missing out on?

 

[lpdsn]

OP has probably got his hacksaw out and done it by now.

 

[Twister_Ken]

OP has probably got his hacksaw out and done it by now.

Not yet, but tomorrow!

 

[wully1]

I've found that steel chain is easily cut with a hacksaw. Preferably sharp new blade and some way of clamping chain.

Preferably not the way some numbskull I used to have the pleasure of working with did it - with his left index finger through the link he was hack sawing through. His fist was grinding against the concrete as he sawed.
when I gently pointed out that there was a better way to cut chain I was told to Eff-off as he knew what he was doing.
( it was my first week on the job)
luckily the nurse in A&E really did know how to put stitches in.

I had the pleasure of taking him back to the same A&E and same nurse the second time I got told to Eff-off for suggesting a better, safer way of doing something by him. After that I refused to work with him any more.